myTtuner

Michael E. | Jan 30, 2010 Music

User rating:

(5 votes, average: 2.40 out of 5)

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In the days before Pandora, Sirius, and Napster, radio ruled the world. If you didn’t own the album, CD, or cassette, the only way to hear your favorite tunes was the radio. Your yearning for the latest from Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers or U2 could only be satisfied by a radio DJ.

Sometimes you might flip on the radio and catch your favorite song halfway through. That wasn’t so bad. Sometimes you only caught the last few seconds of it. That was bad.

Every now and then, if you were lucky- really lucky- you’d enter a kind of musical zone. In the zone, you could flip on the radio, catch your favorite song as it was starting and listen to it all the way through. If you were really in the zone, you could change stations after the song had ended and catch it again, right at the very beginning.

Good times. I don’t miss them one bit.

Gianluca Falasca’s MyTtuner- The Ultimate Radio operates under the principle that somewhere on the world’s wide web, an internet station is playing a song or an artist you like. With MyTtuner, you tell it who or what you want to hear (you can enter up to 6 choices) and when the app finds that song or artist, it will let you know (as long as you’re still in the app, of course). Then, just tap your screen and enjoy on-demand music old school style, minus those pesky subscription fees. If you really like a station, you can select it as a favorite and listen to it whenever you want. Do you have favorite artists or groups? Great! Save them and the next time the app is opened, you can quickly search for their music.

MyTtuner will also generate a listing of every artist being played at the moment and update every 60 seconds.

Sweet, right? Unfortunately, MyTtuner initially had some serious issues with stability; it crashed every time I used it, even after an update designed to eliminate them. Each crash would erase my saved searches, my saved webcast stations, and music history. As you can imagine, that was a pretty big disappointment, especially for an app with a $2.99 sale price.

These past couple days though, it seems to be running better. When it works, it’s great. When it works, I start to think about terminating my Rhapsody subscription. But when it doesn’t, it’s quite frustrating.

My only suggestion for improvement- beyond stability- would be MyTtuner’s appearance. It’s a little dull and could benefit from a colorful makeover.

With a couple more updates and a bigger pool of internet stations to find the music and artists I like, I might just stop feeding my money to Rhapsody and use those monthly fees to buy more apps…

myTtuner

Version 1.1.1

Reviewed on iPod Touch 3.1.2